How do judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1972 / Served to 1982

Robert Henry Jordan

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Robert Henry Jordan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1972. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1992
Tenure: 1972–1982 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–
1972	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Jordan authored 1,632 published opinions for the court (1960–1982), plus 132 dissents and 54 concurrences. Most cited: Hawes v. State (237 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 796 of these were attributed to Jordan by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1977	Hawes v. State· Concurrence†	240 S.E.2d 833	237
1982	Momon v. State· Dissent†	294 S.E.2d 482	197
1982	Blackburn v. Blackburn· Concurrence†	292 S.E.2d 821	162
1977	State v. Chambers· Dissent†	239 S.E.2d 324	150
1979	White v. State· Dissent†	253 S.E.2d 694	129
1974	McCorquodale v. State	211 S.E.2d 577	118
1970	Wakefield v. AR Winter Co., Inc.· Dissent†	174 S.E.2d 178	108
1973	Merino v. State	198 S.E.2d 311	107
1982	Allrid v. Emory University· Dissent†	285 S.E.2d 521	102
1976	Ellington v. Tolar Consruction Co.· Dissent†	227 S.E.2d 336	102
1976	Coleman v. State	226 S.E.2d 911	100
1974	High v. State	210 S.E.2d 673	100
1973	Turner v. Harper· Dissent†	200 S.E.2d 748	100
1980	State v. Germany	271 S.E.2d 851	99
1969	Chandler v. Gately· Dissent†	167 S.E.2d 697	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,818 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Robert Henry Jordan on?: Robert Henry Jordan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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10 years on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).